American Women — Women of Color and discrimination

  • Indians and medicine : sterilization and genocide / Dr. Connie Uri ; interviewed by Jim Berland.

    Connie Uri, MD, a Native American doctor, discusses the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ sterilization policy in Oklahoma with KPFK’s Jim Berland. Uri describes the American government’s forcible sterilization of Native American women and reports on her visit of Claremore Indian Hospital in Claremore, Oklahoma, where she discovered that over one hundred Native women who were…

  • Pensamientos femeninos

    The perspective of five Chicanas in today’s movement, featuring Adelaida Del Castillo, linguistics major at UCLA and associate editor of the first Chicana magazine, entitled Encuentro Femenil; Francisca Flores, director of the Chicana Service Action Center, which provides employment and job training; Alicia Escalante, founder of and consultant to the Chicana Welfare Rights Organization; Evelina…

  • Reflecciones de la Raza: September 8, 1973

    Aircheck for “Reflecciones de la Raza”, hosted by a woman (identity unknown), likely broadcast on September 8, 1973. Program begins with a report on the grape strike from Dan Sudran, Chairperson of the United Farm Workers, San Francisco Chapter. He discusses the boycotts, numbers of workers jailed, costs, law enforcement during the strike. Musica latina…

  • Dial ‘O’ for operator / produced by Bonnie Bellow and Nanette Rainone.

    Examination of the New York Telephone worker. Includes interviews with Louella Smith, who filed charges of racial discrimination with the State Division of Human Rights against New York Telephone and had her case taken up by the Center for United Labor Action, as well as other operators, service representatives and management. Produced by Bonnie Bellow…

  • History of the women’s suffrage movement : racism and middle class bias against women / Pam Allen.

    Pam Allen focuses on racism and the middle class bias in this talk which, was the first of two presentations on the Suffrage Movement she made for the Bay Area School last January. It was recorded in an extremely crowded classroom, so there are a lot of clunks and bangs which we hope won’t bother…

  • Shirley Chisholm : campaign and interview / produced by Miriam Rosen.

    Short interview with African-American Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (b. November 30, 1924 – d. January 1, 2005) in between her last campaign appearances before the New York state primary in 1972. Congresswoman Chisholm was the first African-American woman to run for the position of President of the United States. Interview conducted out-of-doors as interviewer walks alongside…

  • Ralph Abernathy and Angela Davis

    Angela Davis, recently released from prison, is interviewed by civil rights leader Rev. Ralph Abernathy regarding the May 20, 1972 “Rally Against Racism, War, Repression” in San Jose, CA. The two discuss the impact a consolidated effort by different activist groups (civil rights, anti-war, Chicano, and labor movement) could have on the oppressive regime in…

  • Sadie and Maude, 1971 / Jeanette Henderson and Linda Taylor.

    In this program of poetry, discussion and music dedicated to Angela Davis, two young Black women, Jeanette Henderson, wife and mother, and Linda Taylor, student, read the works of Black women poets Sojourner Truth, Jeanette MacDonald, Gwendolyn Brooks, Charlene Grant and Brown poet, Inglacia Delagente. Black liberation and its relationship to white women’s liberation, and…

  • Janice Mirikatani, Joaquin Legaspi and Momo Yashima / interviewed by Frank Chin.

    Frank Chin interviews Janice Mirikatani, the editor of Aion magazine, a journal of Asian-American writing; Joaquin Legaspi, a writer and activist who is on the faculty of the Asian Studies department at San Francisco State; and Momo Yashima, actor and member of the Brotherhood of Artists, a group of Asian-American artists who are protesting the…

  • Angela Davis and Ralph Abernathy : a press conference.

    Ralph Abernathy and Angela Davis speak about an upcoming rally to be held in San Jose, CA on May 20, 1972. They also speak about the need for solidarity between anti-Vietnam groups in the fight. Originally a 2-part program, but part A is a duplicate of BC0763. BB5364B is now BB5364.